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Installing Linkerd with Helm
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Linkerd is a service mesh that provides observability, reliability, and security for your Kubernetes applications. We can choose to install Linkerd using helm or it's linkerd CLI tool, which is a more hands-on way of achieving the same.
Since in the linkerd documentations is explicitly recommending to use helm for production environments, we are going to do exactly that.
19/03/2025
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Argo Rollouts: Canary deployments
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A canary deployment is a technique to reduce the risk of introducing a new version of a software application in production by slowly rolling out the change to a small subset of users before rolling it out to the entire infrastructure. If any issue is detected on the "canary", the deployment can be stopped, and the rest of the users won't be affected. With Argo Rollouts, we can easily implement this strategy.
18/03/2025
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Argo Rollouts: Blue-Green deployments
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Argo Rollouts is a Kubernetes controller and set of CRDs for progressive delivery. It can be used to orchestrate blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rollouts. We are going to take a look at how to use Argo Rollouts to perform a blue-green deployment.
17/03/2025
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Kubernetes: Managing tenants with Capsule
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Once we have Capsule setup we'll need to start managing the tenants and their permissions. In this post, we'll see how to assign permissions to a user, cordoning a tenant, and enforcing resource quotas at the tenant level.
27/02/2025
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Installing Argo Rollouts
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Installing Argo Rollouts is very simple, as it is a lightweight controller that can be installed using kustomize. We can also install the CLI to interact with it and start a dashboard to visualize the status of our rollouts.
This controller provides missing deployment strategies like Blue/Green and Canary in a Kubernetes native and GitOps friendly manner.
26/02/2025
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